Hua An looked at the Spartan captives who were cowering in the house, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, although these Spartan captives skillfully used the terrain to stabilize the situation, but after all, they only had less than 20,000 horses, and such a thin strength naturally could not be the opponent of the Jin army, however, Hua An did not intend to kill these Spartans, and these Spartan prisoners were very needed to rebuild Ctesiphon. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Your Majesty, all we have to do is besiege this place, and the Spartans inside will starve to death, and there is no need to attack." Wang San suggested softly.

Hua An nodded: "You are right, there is no need for us to let the soldiers suffer losses in order to suppress the resistance of the Spartan captives, but it would be better if we could persuade them to surrender." ”

Wang San nodded and said, "What the king said is that I will send someone to persuade him to surrender." ”

Soon, a young general volunteered to hold a white flag, walked to the location of the Spartan captive, and demanded that the Spartan captive, who had already rebelled, immediately lay down their arms and come out to surrender.

"Your Majesty, the last general thinks that these Spartan soldiers will not come out and surrender so easily, and we may not have to hope too much." Wang San said softly.

Hua An waved his hand and said: "This is not necessarily, when they were trapped in the desert, didn't there be many people who said that the Spartans would not surrender?" In the end they surrendered, and the situation is the same today, the Spartans will still surrender, but perhaps they will make some conditions, and as long as they do not go too far, the king can agree. ”

"I hope the king is true." Wang San responded.

"Newspaper, Your Majesty, the Spartans are asking for negotiations." The young general of the Jin army, who went to surrender, rushed back and reported the situation loudly.

Hua An nodded, looked at Wang San with a smile, and said happily: "How about it, what this king said is not wrong!" The Spartans were still going to negotiate. ”

Wang San also smiled happily, and said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, the situation inside is unknown, let's let them send a representative to talk!" ”

Hua An nodded approvingly: "That's natural, do you want this king to risk his life and go to them?" Immediately let them come to negotiate, and they said that the king agreed. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The general replied and immediately went to rule the Spartans to negotiate.

Several Spartan generals all rushed to negotiate with Huaan, but Barbatio also vetoed their demands, he wanted to negotiate with Huaan in person, and asked all Spartans not to act rashly, after all, they had no chance of winning at the moment, and the end of the rebellion was only a dead end.

Soon, Barbatio, the representative of the Spartans, walked up to Huaan and bowed to him.

Hua An specially asked his subordinates to prepare tables and chairs, and when he saw Barbatio saluting him, he said with a smile: "General Barbatio, please take a seat!" ”

"Thank you, King North." Barbatio was not polite and sat down directly.

"Tell me, Spartans, why rebel?" Hua An asked softly.

Barbatio pursed his lips and said the reason for the rebellion of the Spartan soldiers, on the whole, there are still some discrepancies with what the Persian generals said, but the general meaning is almost the same, that is, the Spartans don't want to continue to work, they feel that both the Persian and Tianzhu captives can serve the Great Jin, why their Roman captives can only do coolies, which is very unfair.

Hearing this, Hua An smiled and said softly: "Why, General Barbatio thinks that this king is unfair to you Roman soldiers?" ”

Barbatio nodded, and said: "Yes, your majesty, we have heard that the soldiers of Tianzhu and Persia have surrendered to you, but they are already your subordinates, and we have also surrendered to you, but we are slaves, we can only do the hardest words, I don't understand, why we are treated so badly, is it because we are Romans?" After speaking, he looked at Hua'an very dissatisfied.

Hua An smiled and said, "What, General Barbatio really doesn't understand what the reason is?" Still pretending to be confused. ”

"Your Excellency the North King, I really don't understand, please tell me, is it okay?" Barbatio said seriously.

Seeing Barbatio's expression of sincerity and ignorance, Hua An smiled and said, "Okay! Since General Barbatio doesn't know anything, then the king might as well tell you that the reason why this king does not dare to incorporate you Roman soldiers is that there are three reasons, the first point is that your Roman Empire still exists and is an enemy of the Great Jin Empire, you should know very well that the reason why the Tianzhu soldiers were incorporated by this king is because the Tianzhu Kingdom has been destroyed by this king, and now there is only the Tianzhu Governor's Mansion of the Great Jin Dynasty, and there is no Tianzhu Kingdom, and the captives of Tianzhu can only be loyal to the Great Jin, and the king will naturally accept the captives of Tianzhu, isn't it? Also, the reason why this king accepted the Persian captives was because Persia had decided to attach to the Great Jin court, although the Persian king Shapur II was still there at that time, and the Persian Empire was still there, but the Persian king had chosen to attach to the Great Jin, so what reason did this king have not to accept the Persian captives? And your Roman Empire still exists today, and this king has an ominous premonition that your Roman Empire will attack this king sooner or later, if you are recruited at this time, what if the main Roman force kills and you suddenly turn against you, this king has to consider this serious consequence! He looked at Barbatio.

Barbatio nodded seriously, and said with a straight face: "There is some truth in what His Excellency the King of the North said, which makes Barbatio understand this truth, but what about the second point?" Why do we do coolies, why torture us, is it because we are Romans? ”

Hua An smiled and said, "General Barbatio, it's not the first time you've come to Ctesiphon!" This shouldn't have been the case with Ctesiphon before! Why did Ctesiphon become what it is, don't you know? After speaking, he glared at Barbatio with a stern gaze.

Barbatio frowned and nodded, "That's right, it was our Roman army that burned the city after breaking through Ctesiphon, which caused Ctesiphon to become what it is now. After speaking, he seemed a little unconfident.

Hua An smiled and said, "That's right, that's right, Tai Xifeng was originally a very luxurious city, and it was because of your destruction that it became what it is today, shouldn't you be responsible for this?" Also, shouldn't you be punished for slaughtering all the people of Ctesiphon, leaving no one in a radius of dozens of miles inside and outside Ctesiphon? If you don't want to rebuild Ctesiphon, do you want us to do the work? ”

Barbatio lowered his head, looking very depressed, when he broke through Ctesiphon, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with slaughtering Ctesiphon's soldiers and civilians, but at this moment, under Hua'an's accusation, he felt that the Romans had slaughtered the city in Ctesiphon was too cruel, and the Romans should be punished greatly for this, and he was willing to accept this punishment.

"What's the matter, General Barbatio, do you know you've made a mistake?" Seeing Barbatio bowing his leader, Huaan asked softly.

Barbatio nodded and said: "Yes, Your Excellency the King of the North, I, Barbatio, am indeed wrong, when our Roman Empire's soldiers and horses attacked Ctesiphon, they should not have slaughtered the people in the city, let alone set fire to the city, these are our faults, we should accept punishment, we confess our guilt." ”

Hua An smiled and said softly: "This king has only said two points, and you are in a hurry to confess your guilt, and you still want to hear the third point." He looked at Barbatio.

Barbatio nodded and said, "Your Excellency the King of the North, please speak, Barbatio listens." ”

Hua An looked at Barbatio sternly, and said: "The third point, this king is worried that you have done such a cruel thing in Ctesiphon, which will make it unbearable for the Persian soldiers to bear it, and they will be enemies of you everywhere, so that the auxiliary army of my Great Jin Dynasty will not be a mess of porridge, so naturally I can't take you in. The hostility towards you Romans will lessen, don't you say? With that, he looked at Barbatio again.

Barbatio kept nodding his head, and said with a straight face: "Thank you for the teachings of Your Excellency the Northern King, Barbatio knows that he is wrong, and he also knows that the Roman Empire is wrong, I will return immediately, let all the Spartans work hard, and will never cause chaos to His Excellency the Northern King again, at the same time, I also hope that the Northern King will send some Jin soldiers to take care of us, so that the Persian soldiers will be a little restrained, after all, if they are too coercive, Barbatio will not be able to suppress the anger in everyone's hearts, and I hope that His Excellency the Northern King will think about it more." ”

Hua An grinned, and said: "Okay, General Barbatio, this king promises you, this king will let the Persian soldiers restrain a little, but you also have to work hard, when you rebuild Cessiphon, this king will try to resolve the contradictions between you and the Persians." ”

"Thank you King North, listening to your teachings, Barbatio seems to have grown a lot, I will go back to teach everyone, and I will definitely let them work hard." Barbatio said as he got up and took his leave.

Looking at the back of Barbatio's departure, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Hua An's mouth, such a tricky matter was solved so easily, which made Hua An very proud.

"The king is really powerful, just a few words made Barbatio leave convincingly." Wang San slapped a sycophant.

Hua An smiled: "That's natural, I don't want to think about who this king is, as long as this king makes a move, is there anything in the world that can't be solved?" Ha ha! After saying that, he laughed arrogantly.

After all, there is nothing to enjoy in the army, and it is also very good to brag about it once in a while.

"Your Majesty, should we follow Barbatio's suggestion and send soldiers from the Great Jin Dynasty to supervise their work?" Wang San asked softly.

Hua An nodded and said: "This is a must, immediately send the Great Jin soldiers to control the situation, and you, you must restrain your soldiers and don't treat Roman prisoners too harshly." As he spoke, he looked at several Persian generals.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Several Persian generals hurriedly responded.

"Alright, you guys go and get ready!" Hua An whispered, and rode back to his lodgings.

Half an hour later, the king strode up and reported happily: "Your Majesty, the matter has been satisfactorily settled, and the Spartan captives have begun to work. ”

"Well, great, things are going even better than this king expected." Hua An said happily.

"Your Majesty, there is another important situation, which has just been reported, Constantius II is on the verge of death, and it is estimated that he will die soon, and he has decided to pass the throne to Julian, and now, Julian has sent his henchmen to Constantinople and pacify the generals of Rome in the east." Wang San Zhengse reported.

"What, Constantius II is dying, so soon." When Hua An heard this, he was slightly surprised, paused, and said softly: "I really didn't expect that Constantius II, when he was dying, would pass on the throne to the person he hated the most, which is really a great irony." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, however, Constantius II has no heirs, and the only legitimate heir is Julian, and no one can inherit the throne except Julian." Wang San explained softly.

Hua An nodded lightly, and said, "This is not a good thing for us!" Once Julian ascends the throne, he will inevitably lead his troops to a decisive battle with our army, and this king has heard that this Julian is quite capable, and his ability to command battles is much stronger than that of Constantius II. ”

Wang San smiled and patted his ass: "Your Majesty, Julian is much more powerful than Constantius II, but how can he be compared to the king?" As long as the king is on the horse, Julian is no match at all. ”

Hua An smiled, nodded and said: "That's right, that's too good, as long as this king comes out, Julian is not vulnerable at all, but after all, Julian has so many moves, we must not underestimate the enemy, we must be fully prepared to face the battle." ”

Obviously, no matter how Hua'an despises Julian in his heart, he still has to attach great importance to Julian in terms of tactics, and underestimating the enemy is a taboo for soldiers, which is an iron law since ancient times, so no matter what kind of opponent he encounters, Hua'an will not underestimate the enemy.

"Yes, Your Majesty, we must actively prepare for war, and the specific matters of preparing for war will be handed over to the last general." Wang Sanmao then said with self-recommendation.

Hua An nodded with satisfaction, and said: "Okay, this matter will be left to you, however, this king still has to remind you that this Julian has some paragraphs, so you must strictly train the soldiers, in addition, let the baggage battalion step up the construction of thunderbolts, and this king will give Julian a big gift." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang San replied. (To be continued.) )